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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        paulc@seas.ucla.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: harddrive partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960710110520.668C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9607091904.AA35059@lightning.seas.ucla.edu>

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On Tue, 9 Jul 1996 paulc@seas.ucla.edu wrote:

> 	I have a 1GB SCSI drive, partitioned into 3 drives.
> First is 100MB (primary) for dos programs; the other two are in
> an extended partition.  Within the extended partiton, I created 2 logical
> paritions, 500MB (win95) and 400MB (potential UNIX); respectively
> C:\ D:\ E:\
> 
> 	When I ran FIPS, indicates only two drives, I guess
> the 100MB and the 900MB.  If I continue with splitting the 2nd drive, will
> that kill my win95?  

I would guess so.  I don't think FIPS will split extended partitions 
successfully.  I believe it was intended to be used on primary partitions 
only.

> I'm new to installing UNIX, can you give me a step by step procedure or
> at least giveme some hints as to how to proceed.

Back up everything important, wipe everything, install Win95, install 
FreeBSD.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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